Contents

Prothalamion

Chapter I. New-Wedded Lord

Chapter II. Goosefeather Bed

Chapter III. Jordan River

Chapter IV. Household Gods

Chapter V. Fury of Guns

Chapter VI. Back to the Army Again

Chapter VII. Lotos and Cactus

Chapter VIII. £ s. d.

Chapter IX. Times and Seasons

Chapter X. Four-Ale Bar

Chapter XI. Policeman’s Lot

Chapter XII. Pot-Luck

Chapter XIII. This Way and That Way

Chapter XIV. Crowner’s Quest

Chapter XV. Sherry—and Bitters

Chapter XVI. Crown Matrimonial

Chapter XVII. Crown Imperial

Chapter XVIII. Straws in the Hair

Chapter XIX. Prickly Pear

Chapter XX. When You Know How, You Know Who

Epithalamion

Chapter I. London: Amende Honorable

Chapter II. Denver Ducis: The Power and the Glory

Chapter III. Talboys: Crown Celestial

A Biography of Dorothy L. Sayers

That will ask some tears in the true performing of it: if I do it, let the audience look to their eyes; I will move storms, I will condole in some measure. … I could play Ercles rarely, or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split … a lover is more condoling.

—SHAKESPEARE,

A Midsummer Night’s Dream